Die Überlebenden

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Germany, 1995, 90 min

Directed by:

Andres Veiel

Cinematography:

Lutz Reitemeier
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High school reunion, graduation class of 79: we meet again after 16 years. Three of us are missing, they have committed suicide in the intervening years. Shortly after graduation – 1979: Thilo, long hair, runs up a hill. Thilo is a fighter, for his music, for more justice in the world. Rudi, son of a greengrocer. At the horizontal bar, he can’t do much more than hang there like a wet sack. Rudi is popular, a sweet guy. He graduates with an A average. He goes to Scotland as an assistant at a College. He has never felt better. After one year he returns to Stuttgart. Something is wrong with him. Three weeks later he is dead. Tilman. He played music with Thilo. He leaves high school after 11th grade, begins an apprenticeship as a metalworker. He moves to Berlin to avoid military draft. Thilo visits him there. One morning he goes into a garage, closes the gate and turns on the motor. When Tilman dies, Thilo reports himself to the police. But nobody believes him. Two years later Thilo also goes into a garage. (DOK.fest München)

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